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I decided to do a motherboard swap without reinstalling. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxhardware@lemmy.ml

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To start off with I had a Ryzen 3400G and an MSI B450 Tomahawk Max that had become unstable and took several tries to boot. I decided to swap in an ASUS Prime B550M-A wifi.

The only issue is I was triple booting Kubuntu, Windows 7, and Windows 10, so this would be interesting.

TL/DR:

Kubuntu booted normally. Like seriously, just a regular boot, no messages or anything.

Windows 7 froze a few seconds into the loading screen. I tried rebooting and using safe mode, but that froze too.

Windows 10 gave a bunch of 'rechecking' and 'fixing file system' messages, and after about 2 reboots with more messages, opened to a workable desktop.

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[–] lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Lol I did this with 2 laptops that had different CPU generations and it still worked, haha. Had a laptop I was using as home server with a 2nd gen Intel i5, and a laptop I was using as personal laptop with an Intel core 2 duo and just took the drives and swapped them, everything booted normally, no problems. Linux is awesome.